French fast food takeaway

Abstract

Takes a look at the French Army’s new F60 million meals packaging facility at Angers. The roboticised assembly line is intended to produce military rations at a rate of 24 per minute, to be sent out to troops in trouble spots all round the world. Describes the composition and packaging of each meal pack and the different types of robots employed for the various tasks. The assembled packs are taken to a computerized store where six PCs linked by an Ethernet LAN and supervised by a Nobel computer, manage the stocks.

Citation

Kochan, A. (1994), "French fast food takeaway", Assembly Automation, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004199